Shaun Phillips

So I see Donald Tusk has been up to his old tricks again. All that anti-Mexico rhetoric about immigrant rapists and criminals is unbecoming of a man running for president. Much as I empathise, you’re thinking of Donald Trump. Donald Tusk is already a president — of the European Council. Oh, so why

Heard the news? There’s going to be a new James Bond. I knew Daniel Craig had an accident on the set of Spectre. I didn’t realise it was fatal. He was shaken, not interred. I’m not talking about the film. According to reports, Merry Saltzman, the daughter of Bond producer Harry Saltzman has bagged

Isn’t it great to watch England compete in a football tournament, even if they haven’t quite reached the exalted standards we always expect? That goal during “squeaky bum time” against Sweden was definitely close to the wire. What was the name of the scorer? Plays for Manchester United. Jesse

I don’t know about you but I still haven’t got over what I witnessed at the men’s French Open final. Couldn’t agree more. Who’d have thought that Stanislas Wawrinka would defeat world No 1 Novak Djokovic in such dramatic fashion . . . I know. His shorts were amazing. Yes, his backhand was lethal.

For those who find the fetishistic worship of skinny food on social media sites disquieting this news may be disturbing: Google is working on artificial intelligence software that will analyse the food images we post on Instagram and estimate the number of calories that we are about to consume.

Did you see Coleen Rooney’s surprise choice for her latest mini break? Barbados no longer swish enough for her? Was it St Barths? Or the Turks and Caicos . . ? Not even close. She went on a caravan holiday. A luxury trek across the shifting sands of the Sahara, no doubt. Riding like Bedouin

If like me, you have no salt on your kitchen table and the words “ready meal” are anathema to your home cooking, you might be uninterested by news that the government’s failure to crack down on salt content is costing thousands of lives a year. How difficult can it be, you might ask, to reduce your

What’s going on? Everyone is talking about Ikea in concerned tones. It’s because of the Divorcemaker. Is that the funky new birchwood pad they’re selling, which wirelessly charges your iPhone? No, that’s the Nordmärke. The Divorcemaker is the term Dr Ramani Durvasula, a professor of psychology

Former footballer Sulzeer Jeremiah “Sol” Campbell, 40, was born in east London. He made his debut with Tottenham Hotspur aged 18, before moving to Arsenal in 2001. He has been talking to the Conservatives about running for mayor of London or becoming an MP. He lives in Chelsea with his wife and

It’s approaching a hundred years since Mr and Mrs Julius Walsh invited 50 friends to their mansion on Lindell Boulevard in St Louis, Missouri, to what was allegedly the first “cocktail party”. A week later, America entered the war and within two years the nation’s nascent cocktail barmen found